Checklist Item 2 - School level meeting and Reflection week of 3/2 - 3/6

This week I attended the school level meeting with the CMS media committee.  The meeting began with a discussion of the school book fairs along with the goals for the months that the book fair will be going on in.  Other topics were collaboration with teachers and the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl.  Our librarian wants to increase the amount of collaboration between the media specialist and the teachers in the school.  Weeding and collection updating was discussed.  We identified sections that need to be weeded and updated in order to keep the collection up to date.  One other thing of note is that our school is moving to a system having all students use their lexile levels for reading.  Because of this our library has put lexiles in all of the books so that students check out books based on their personal scores.  We discussed how this process is working and it was determined that teachers, students, and the media center were all benefiting from the new process. The last item discussed was the budget.  Our media center has a budget of $13,000 for the year.  Of that number we have set aside $5,665 for books and $4,100 for supplies.  We will use these funds to update the collection and purchase needed supplies for the next school year.